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Genesis 35:26

AsherGadIsraelLeahZilpahPaddan-aram

24 The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

25 The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.

And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

27 Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

28 And Isaac lived 180 years.

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BSB
And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
KJV
And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.
WEB
The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
ASV
and the sons of Zilpah, Leah`s handmaid: Gad and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Paddan-aram.
DARBY
And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob that were born to him in Padan-Aram.
BLB
and the sons of Zilpah, maidservant of Leah: Gad and Asher. These [are] the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
ÅB
Og Leas slavekvinne Silpas sønner var: Gad og Aser. Dette var Jakobs sønner, som han fikk i Mesopotamia.
OTB
Sønnene til Leahs tjenestekvinne Silpa var Gad og Asjer. Dette var Jakobs sønner, født til ham i Paddan-Aram.
B1930
Og Leas trælkvinne Silpas sønner var: Gad og Aser. Dette var Jakobs sønner, som han fikk i Mesopotamia.

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  • Genesis 35:18

    And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.

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  • Genesis 31:18

    and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.

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  • Genesis 46:16–18

    The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

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  • Genesis 25:20

    and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

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  • Genesis 30:9–13

    When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

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  • Genesis 28:2

    “Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

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